naturalgasbadPalestinian poll shows a rise in Hamas support and close to 90% wanting US-backed Abbas to resign
Bomb a disproportionately large amount of civilians and children and Hamas support rises…shocking
deafboyIt kinda is. I can’t imagine cheering for the guys who attracts the bombs my way.
It's easy to cheer for the guys who are fighting the guy bombing you. And keeping you in inhumane conditions where, well.., I hope I don't need to explain how life in Gaza is even in the best of days, but anyway the Israel disengagement came with the unsaid stipulation that Gaza would never be allowed to have a future. It's natural to cheer for the people who are trying to change that.
Not sure how old you are, but I remember after 9/11 everyone being super mad about our foreign policy decisions since the 1940s and not happily giving up a massive amount of freedom and privacy to feel safer.
Actually, we forgot all our internal divisions, voted almost unanimously to give up those freedoms and and happily marched to 20 years of war.
The Palestinians are doing the same. They’re scared, so their turning to those in authority to protect them. Just like we did in America when we got scared.
Idk if the we is meant to include yourself, but anyone who happily supported the invasions after 2001 was an idiot. I was pretty young when 9/11 happened but even through the fear my family was smart enough to not blindly follow their emotions and the incessant “support the troops or else” narrative at the time.
It’s almost like living in a world where food, water, electricity, and aid are extremely scarce because your occupier wants them to be, while being in a constant state of displacement and fear from unending indiscriminate bombing campaigns that target schools, hospitals, refugee camps, and more can make some people act irrationally